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Show uu STAY OF MANDATFJ FOR DYNAMITERS Sentences of 24 Iron Workers Stayed Pending Supreme Court Decision. Chicago, 111, Jan. 21. A stay of mandate in the cases of the alleged dynamiters convicted at Indianapolis and whose demands for new triads recently re-cently was refused, waR granted the defendants by the United States court of appeals here today. The case of thirty of the defendants were appealed and new trials were ordered for six of them. Today's mandate has the effect of staving sen tence in the cases of the remaining twenty-four until the supreme court of the United States passes on an ap peal. Application to this court Tor a writ of certioorarl will be made by Attorney E. N Zoline, for .the defend-I defend-I ants on February 7 He will plead: 1 That inasmuch as all of the dc- fendanta were alleged to have bean linked together in the charge of conspiracy con-spiracy to transport dynamite, all of the defendants should have been granted new trials, instead of only six of them. 2 That the defendants were doub 1 punished. Once for conspiracy to transport dynamite and again for the actual transportation of the explosive. 3 That Ortle McManigal and Edward Ed-ward Clark, having pleaded guilty to a felony, were incompetent witnesses, and should have been tried separately 4 The oftenscs charged were barfed barf-ed by the statute of limitations at the time of the indictments. 5 No federal offense was proven. 6 That decisions of courts of appeal ap-peal conflict in similar case. |